Excerpt from The Rise, Progress, and Present Structure of the English Language The following work was begun some years ago. In the course of his occasional reading, the author was forcibly struck with the numerous grammatical errors scattered over every department of English literature with which he happened to be acquainted. For the purpose of private instruction, he noted down, from time to time, such errors as he considered liable to a marked and decisive condemnation. In doing this, he found that examples rapidly accumulated; and he felt that a systematic arrangement of those examples, accompanied by critical observations, would prove advantgeous, to himself at least, in an intellectual point of view. Before he entertained any serious thoughts of publication, the remarks of others were sometimes embodied with his own, without any stringent references to the sources from which they were derived. To seek to remedy this afterwards would have been a hopeless task. When instances of this kind occur, more particularly in a work in which authors spread over so wide a space of time were to be consulted, he must crave the reader's indulgence. In the case of any historical fact, he ventures to affirm, that no single assertion has been made which is not founded on recognized authority.

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